Has there been any official word on how to pronounce leve? Since being on vent a couple times I've noticed this is a hotly contested issue.
I say "leave."
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Has there been any official word on how to pronounce leve? Since being on vent a couple times I've noticed this is a hotly contested issue.
I say "leave."
"Leave"
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I usually pronounce it as "leave"
I've heard it's "leave" so I've stuck with that.
Yikes, all this time I've been pronouncing it as "leh-vh"...
I pronounce it Leh-vh
I say "Leave"
i heard over vent people say "Levie" i don't like it.
I might be mistaken but when you use google translate it phonetically translates the japanese to english as "Guildrevu" not "Guildrevi" making me conclude that revu is more like "leave" than if it were "revi"
I could be making that up though. lol.
リーヴ -> rīvu -> Leave ^^
I actually talked to someone and tried it on a few TTS thingies to see what it said and I always got "Leave".
I say it "leave" using the logic that Stephen Hawking is smarter than me.
I pronounce it, "Lev E" Using a short E on the first on, then a long E on the second one. I just pronounce it how it's spelled. :D
Although, you would think that I would pronounce it as Leave since, to be grammatically correct, I would. But it just seems to be more right pronouncing it how I do, since Leavequests wouldn't make much sense. :D
Dictionary.com says...
Leve
Leve\, v. t. [OE. leven, AS. l[=e]fan, l[=y]fan. See Leave permission.] To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause. [Obs.]
This is a word used in old English frequently seen in such works as Canterbury Tales. My resident editor and Chaucer expert says that in the aforementioned work Leve is pronounced "Lehv" most commonly, though there are some grammatical structures involving pauses after the word and using it at the end of a sentence that make the word pronounced "Lehv-eh." So, I picked up a Guild Lehv today. Or, Today, I picked up a Guild Lehveh.
Edit: Maybe our localization experts could chime in - if they would dare to venture into boards dominated by the cult of Bay or Ru...
Funny thing is I say it verbally both ways, but when I'm typing "leve" I say it in my mind "lev".
But when I type the plural "leves", which is most of the time, I say it in my mind "leaves"
Always stumble verbally between "leave" and "lehv", and always accidently type "level"...I've given up and just call them guild quests. :p
The Japanese translation seems to agree with the English word. t's pronounced "Leave." From FreeDictionary.com:
There's also a word pronounced "LEV-ē," but that word is spelled "levee" or "levy."Quote:
Leve
(lēv)
a. 1. Dear. See Lief.
n. & v. 1. Same as 3d & 4th Leave.
v. i. 1. To live.
v. t. 1. To believe.
1. To grant; - used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.
God leve all be well.
- Chaucer.
It is pronounced like leave.
As Vydarr posted, a leve is a grant. This is a granted quest or mission you have been given.
A levee is a river embankment.
I called it "Levy or levie".
My source is from the Anime Escaflowne, floating rocks in that anime, which are used to make ships fly are called levie stones, Aethrtytes are also a floating stones.
I don't care how to pronounce it.
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It's all means the same thing and everyone knows what we are referring to.
But I do pronounce it as "levy"
Plural is "levies"
I've always said it like "leave." I can't help but giggle when people say "levie," or "lev" Just sounds so funny. :3
If I ever wonder how to say something in game, I just look at how the Japanese say it. Works every time. ^^/
It's a safe assumption to say that players in New Orleans do not pronounce it Levie.
There's a post somewhere on the site about giving the description for leve quests, and it says theyre special quests that grant adventurers "on leave" to special tasks, thus they are called leve quests because of this.
Considering how Leve quests are built around the word "leave" i'd imagine they'd be pronounced as such.
In past FFXIV interviews—the developers always pronounced them as "leaves", so that is what I call them.
I always thought it was lehve, I'm always thinking of a le- with no extra vowels with a leh sound more often than with a lee sound.
Never heard any vids pronouncing it, that or I don't pay attention to phonics much in a translated video because I'm reading the translation. Pronunciation is always up in the air for me a lot in games.
leave, because that's exactly how miss saori hill said it while translating for tanaka in interviews back in the olden pre-alpha times. And that's the bottom line because stone cold said so.
I remember waaaaay back in release when there were interviews about the guildleve system, it was said "guildleve" was an Eorzean word for "guild leave". So by that definition I'd say it be pronounce leave and leaves (just like leaves of a tree). I think both pronunciations are plausible though and I end up using both from time to time haha.
"Leave" lol
Levie sounds kinda stupid imo. Leave sounds like your leaving to accomplish something.
It's always been "Leave"(way back in the 2009 videos?). "Levie" is just jargon that people who don't care started using.
I read it as it is. Phonetically I mean. 'Cause I'm from Finland.
Been wondering this myself.
Well typically I believe e's after v's are silent. Take example Live and Captive... the last sound is the v when you pronounce these words.
As agreed in multiple posts Levy / Levie is most likely incorrect. (You wouldn't pronounce Live as Livy or Captive as Captivy yeah!?) Besides there's already a word pronounced that way and its spelled Levee.
That comes down to 2 pronunciations:
Lev
Leave (again ve is just v so Leav)
I pronounce it as Lev but thinking about this was also interesting. The word Eve is also pronounced as "eave" which is also another word if I am not mistaken. Leave also follows context as you are taking a leve from the guild and leaving to do the task.
There are however other words that follow the Lev pronunciation such as Shev or any word that ends in that.
Therefor both Lev and Leave would be valid to how the word is actually said, but until we have an ingame cutscene where they actually say the word... I'm still using Lev!
I vote leave ^^
Leave
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I have always pronounced it Lehv as well. Levequest sounds weird as leave-quest and levie or levy just doesn't make any sense. Do you pronounce sense "sensy". Or Mage "Majey"? In the English language an "e" at the end of a word is almost never pronounced fully, it is a modifier for the letter that precedes it. But Lehv and Leave I'm not sure.
To hell with it. I'm just going to call em LQs, then again people will think I'm doing levequests when I'm going to the Liquor Store...